Psalm 72:19 Blessed be His glorious name forever; let the whole earth be filled with His glory! Amen and Amen!
Psalm 47:8 AMP
God reigns over the nations; God sits upon His holy throne.
God is the creator and mover of nations.
He is big and he is able to change the destiny of nations.
At some point in the future Jesus will return to earth and all nations will bow to Him. He will reign on earth for 1000 years and those who have obeyed Him will reign with Him. God wants to give you a revelation that you are part of the biggest movement and events on earth – the church. The church is not small, impotent or insignificant, it is His bride and central focus – Jesus will use the church to bring His will to pass on earth. God can change nations in short periods of time. He puts one up and takes another down. God moves on nations according to His mercy and He hears the cry of His people.
God’s people, the Israelites, were living in Egypt after the time when Jacob and Joseph and the family went down to Egypt after the selling of Joseph into slavery. After many years a new Pharaoh arose and forgot the good that Joseph and his people did for Egypt. Now they were oppressed into slavery. And soon their cry arose to heaven. God help us. It was time for a deliverer.
Ex 2:23AMP However, after a long time [nearly forty years] the king of Egypt died; and the Israelites were sighing and groaning because of the bondage. They kept crying, and their cry because of slavery ascended to God.
God raises up a deliverer. Who will He raise up in Australia? He is looking for people like you to lead others out of oppression and into the Promised Land. There’s a call going out. Can you hear it? Often young people hear it because they haven’t got the loud voices of mortgages, broken marriages, troubled teenage children and disappointment speaking to them. It’s been a pleasure to give up a career in Electrical Engineering and serve Jesus in the church. What will matter in 100 years from now?
In 1991, 1992, 1993, INC sent teams into Kiev in the Ukraine, to preach the gospel. We found a people crying out for God. For 70 years Communism had dominated the former Soviet Union, saying there is no God. The result was oppression, poverty, and millions of broken lives. Now they were ready for the answer – the gospel.
We preached the word and God was changing the city and the nation.
Is there a cry? Will God hear from us, from you, about this nation? Do we cry out to God about our nation? Does it bother us that Australia has largely abandoned faith in God? Does it concern you that the church is ridiculed by Main Stream Media? Does it touch your heart when family Violence rises continually, when ICE addiction threatens countless lives, when the State government bans religious education is schools?
What do you want for your life? Is your life focussed on happiness or getting things, or having a dream job, or living in a place where you desire to be? What dreams and goals fill your mind and heart? Essentially, what are you living for?
I’m living for Australia for Christ. It’s a focus for life. I want to be a part of Jesus’ plan for this nation. Think big about who our God is, don’t be or feel oppressed by lack, ungodliness, ungodly humanity around us, for God has big plans for the whole earth and for Australia.
So how should we respond?
- Let God know…. I surrender my whole life to you, everything I am, everything I’ve got
- Serve Him wholeheartedly walk away from sin, pray, read your bible, go to church every chance you get,
- Be part of a UC group, serve others.
- Study and seek to grow as a leader.
- Find your gift and calling.
- Work hard, live a passionate life, never give up.
What’s your Price? What will you sell out for? What will take your attention, occupy your mind, steal your focus away from the call of God?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- List all the things that you think stop you from serving God wholeheartedly.
- Now ask each other who in the bible had similar objections to serving God?
- In a hundred years from now, what will be the most important things to you? (Yes you’re dead and you’re in heaven)
- Can you hear a cry in Australia?
- What is tour gift or calling to serve God?
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